31. [Horaninow, Paul Fedorowitsch] Goraninow, Paulo / Gorjaninow, P. F.

Primae lineae systematis naturae, nexui naturali omnium evolutionique progressivae per nixus reascendentes superstructi.

St.Petersburg, K.Krajan, 1834. Octavo (13 cm x 20.5 cm). XIII, 142, XXI Seiten mit 1 lithographischen Tafel im Anhang (sauber gespalten aber mit geringem Textverlust). Softcover / Originale Interimsbroschur des 19.Jahrhunderts. Widmungsexemplar des russischen Botanikers Paul Fedorowitsch Horaninow and die Muenchner Vereinigung von Pharmazeuten [″Unioni Pharmaceut. Monacensis”]. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsspuren. Die Tafel mittig gespalten (ein Teil liegt lose bei). / Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. The rare and often missing lithograph cleanly split with ninor text-loss. Very scarce !

32. Jerome, Jerome K.

Three Men in a Boat – (To say nothing of the Dog). Illustrations by A. Frederics.

First Edition, second state, with “11 Quay Street” on titlepage. Bristol/ London, J.W. Arrowsmith / Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co. Limited, 1889. 8°. 315 Pages plus three nn. pages (Publisher’s Advertisement). Hardcover / Original, publisher’s illustrated cloth with gilt lettering on the Spine. Professionally repaired and strengthened binding in prtective Mylar. Private gift-inscription to mirror of title-page. Minor fraying to last page of text. Rare in this condition with minor staining only and all illustrations in beautiful condition.

33. [John Minihan Collection] – Minihan, John. (*1946)

Samuel Beckett – photographed in Room 604 at The Hyde Park Hotel in London, 1980. [Artist Proof] !

Rare, modern print of the 1989 Original / Vintage Photograph on archival paper. London, c. 2010. Photograph: c. 50 cm wide x 38 cm high / Framed: 60 cm wide x 47 cm high. Titled and signed by John Minihan. From his personal Archive. Marked as A/P (Artist Proof) by John Minihan.

34. [John Minihan Collection] – Minihan, John / Heaney, Seamus.

Original photograph of Seamus Heaney at his 70th birthday in his home in Dublin, in the year 2009 / Titled and Signed by John Minihan in 2014 / The vintage photograph is here framed together with the original commemoration Stamp and signed First Day Cover of Anpost [The photograph was used as a Template for the creation of the Anpost Stamp in 2014].

Vintage Photograph on archival paper / Vintage First Day Cover with extra signature by John Minihan. Dublin, 2014. Image of the Photograph: 16 cm x 24 cm / First Day Cover: 18 cm x 12 cm. Overall Framed Size: 79 cm wide x 53,5 cm high. From the personal library of irish photographer John Minihan. Titled and signed by John Minihan. Beautifully framed (see multiple images on our website). Our company knows of an edition of four photographs and signed First Day Covers, which we bought from John Minihan in 2014 and which he signed in 2014. Later, signed First Day Covers are circulating and we have some of those in our archive for sale. But since John Minihan has sold the rights to most of his iconic images to UCC in Cork, none of the photographs are reprinted by the photographer and that makes this combination of the signed Seamus Heaney photograph, combined with the First Day Cover, signed actually on August 28th of 2014, very scarce. We have an edition of 3 (three) left. One is part of the “John Minihan Photography Collection”, which we are selling on our website (see under “Libraries & Collections”) and two are for sale on the free international market. The here offered, beautifully framed version, is one of these two. The price includes free shipping as a framed version within Ireland / The price includes free international shipping per UPS Courier but only unframed (we pay for framing in your home-country) !

35. Johnson, Samuel.

A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the words are deduced from their Originals, Explained in their Different Meanings, and Authorized by the names of the writers in whose Works they are found. Abstracted from the Folio Edition, by the Author Samuel Johnson A.M. To which is prefixed, An English Grammar. To this edition are added, A History of the English Language, The Author’s Preface to the Folio and a considerable Number of Words, none of which are contained in the London Octavo.

Dublin, Printed by W.G.Jones, for Thomas Ewing, in Dame-Street, 1768. Octavo (14 cm x 21,5 cm). 1026 unnumbered pages. Hardcover / Original, 18th century leather with new spine-label. In protective Mylar. Binding with some rubbing and minor defects to the leather. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of John & Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with the name of John Meade on the titlepage.

36. Klesius [Clesius], Johann Jakob / [Heinrich Hugo Cöntgen].

Anleitung bestäubte Insekten zu sammlen [sic], für diejenige, welche erst zu sammlen angefangen, in drey Theilen.

[Zweite Ausgabe]. Koblenz, Verlegt von J.K.Huber, 1784. Oktav (11 cm x 18 cm). 70 Seiten mit 12 gefalteten Kupfertafeln von Heinrich Hugo Cöntgen. Hardcover / Originaler, schlichter Pappband des 19.Jahrhunderts. Die Bindung berieben und bestossen. Der Buchblock und die Tafeln jedoch komplett, sauber und in sehr gutem Zustand. Das Buch ist sehr selten aber noch seltener in dieser Vollstaendigkeit und Erhaltung. Aus der Bibliothek von Peter Josef Bohlen (1825) und Bernhard Cremer (1948) mit privaten Besitzvermerken auf dem Innendeckel und Vorsatzblatt / Binding rubbed but interior in excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. Very scarce !

37. Lewis, Sinclair.

It Can’t Happen Here [The Novel that tells you what will happen to your family if America gets a Dictator].

4th Reprint of the 1939 Edition (with the rare dustjacket). New York, Triangle Books, 1941. Octavo. 458 pages. Original publisher’s Hardcover with the rare, illustrated dustjacket, including the rear flap with the photograph of an idyllic american living-room secenery. In protective Mylar. From the private library of Walter Blake, with his personal stamp to the titlepage. In excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. The dustjacket extremely scarce in this condition.

38. Ligon, Richard.

A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes [sic] / [Barbados]. Illustrated with a Map of the Island [missing], as also the Principal Trees and Plants there, set forth in their due Proportions and Shapes, drawn out by their several and respective Scales. Together with the Ingenio that makes the Sugar, with the Plots of the several Houses, Rooms, and other places, that are used in the whole process of Sugar-making; viz. the Grinding-house, Still-house, and Furnaces; All cut in Copper.

[Second Edition]. London, Printed, and are to be sold by Peter Parker, at his Shop at the Leg and Star over against the Royal Exchange, and Thomas Guy at the corner Shop of Little Lumbard-street and Cornhill, 1673. Small-Folio (19 cm x 29 cm). [II], 122 pages plus an unnumbered Index-page (bound, according to instructions for the bookbinder after page 84), lacking the Fold-out-Map of Barbados but including all six illustrations of Plants, as well as the three diagrams of Houses and Production-Rooms for Sugar. 19th-century Hardcover (half-leather with gilt lettering on spine). Condition of Binding: Very good condition with only minor signs of wear to the binding / Condition of bookblock: Original, front free endpaper was preserved and bound in. Rear endpaper missing. The original endpaper includes two historical ownership-signatures in ink (c.17th or early 18th century) as well as several annotations in ink and pencil. The previous owners seem to have been one Richard Gardner and there is an additional notation verso which reads: “E[x] Libris Richmondi Garnays [or Garneys]”. Some ink-annotations or corrections throughout the book. Signs of old bookworm – damage and very few abrasions due to fire-sparks (few pages effected only). Some plates with professional repairs, some tears. Some professional paper-repairs and re-enforcements to title-page and Content-Page. All the described flaws sound worse than they really appear. All plant-plates in strong impresion. A scarce publication ! From the library of Rev. William Andrew Lamb, Kilcoleman Park, County Cork.

39. [Linné, Carl von] / Giseke, P. D.

Caroli a Linné Termini botanici classium methodi sexualis generumque plantarum characteres compendiosi. Recudi cum interpretatione Germanica.

Editioni huic alteri accesserunt fragmenta ordinum naturalium Linnaei. Hamburg, B. Ch. Herold Wwe. [Ch.Heroldi Viduae], 1782. Octavo (13 cm x 19.5 cm). [10], 396 Seiten mit zwei gefalteten Tabellen. Hardcover / Originaler, dekorativer Halblederband des 19.Jahrhunderts. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsspuren / Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. Very scarce !

40. [Lloyd, Sampson / Lloyds Bank / Lloyds of Birmingham] Sewel, William.

History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress Of the Christian People called Quakers, Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurences. [Provenance: Personal copy of the Brimingham Quaker – Family of Sampson Lloyd, iron manufacturers and founders of Lloyds Bank in England and Wales]. Written Originally in Low-Dutch by William Sewel, and by himself Translated into English. Now Revis’d and Publish’d, with some Amendments.

First English-language edition, following the low Dutch edition of 1717. London, Printed and Sold by Assigns of J.Sowle, at the Bible in George-Yard, Lomabrd -street, 1722. Folio (21 cm x 31 cm). [12], 723, [19] pages (including a thorough Index), plus 4 unnumbered pages of a catalogue of “Books Printed and Sold by the Assigns of J. Sowles”. Hardcover / Original, late 18th century leather with original spine-label and ornament to boards. Six raised bands; spine starting but still firm and holding. Overall very good condition. Bookplate / Exlibris of Arthur Hofmann to pastedown. Excellent and interesting provenance this being one of the most important publications on Quaker – History and originating from one of the oldest and most influential Quaker – Families in England and Wales.